ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,222, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for efficient and secure processing, accessing and transmission of data via a blockchain network" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London), Owen Vaughan (London), Jack Owen Davies (London) and Chloe Ceren Tartan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides improved methods and systems for storing, sharing retrieving, writing and accessing data (content) on a blockchain. The invention may form part of a protocol for storing, searching and accessing the data. An embodiment of the invention comprises the step of proc...